Why housing is so expensive in California

[bripat9643]

I like to watch the show "Flip or Flop" where a California couple makes a fortune buying delapidated houses and turning them into gems. On one show they wanted to redo the front yard of the home by installing sod. Their contractactor told them if they wanted to install sod, the newly updated local building code required them to install a drip irrigation system. Fixing the existing system wasn't allowed. They also had to cut down all the large trees on the property and replace them with mature trees. "Mature" means trees costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The total cost was estimated at $20,000

That's the way your local government promotes affordable housing!

The governent is here to help you. There's no such thing as bad regulations, right snowflakes?

 

[Theowl32]

I like to watch the show "Flip or Flop" where a California couple makes a fortune buying delapidated houses and turning them into gems. On one show they wanted to redo the front yard of the home by installing sod. Their contractactor told them if they wanted to install sod, the newly updated local building code required them to install a drip irrigation system. Fixing the existing system wasn't allowed. They also had to cut down all the large trees on the property and replace them with mature trees. "Mature" means trees costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The total cost was estimated at $20,000

That's the way your local government promotes affordable housing!

The governent is here to help you. There's no such thing as bad regulations, right snowflakes?

Pricing out the middle class = destroying the middle class.

Feudal System is socialism

The rich and the fucked

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I like to watch the show "Flip or Flop" where a California couple makes a fortune buying delapidated houses and turning them into gems. On one show they wanted to redo the front yard of the home by installing sod. Their contractactor told them if they wanted to install sod, the newly updated local building code required them to install a drip irrigation system. Fixing the existing system wasn't allowed. They also had to cut down all the large trees on the property and replace them with mature trees. "Mature" means trees costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The total cost was estimated at $20,000

That's the way your local government promotes affordable housing!

The governent is here to help you. There's no such thing as bad regulations, right snowflakes?

I was renting a backyard guesthouse in Los Angeles. The city told the property owner that the structure, built in 1941, was out of code compliance and had to be demolished. I went to the building commission with him to see what could be done, grandfathered in, waivers, something. The property owner was told that HIS home was too old. Tear down everything and he could get permits and assistance to build seven luxury condos.

 

[Toro]

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

 

[bripat9643]

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

The drip irrigation requirement is intended to deal with California's water shortage. Unfortunately, they are enforcing it against anyone who wants to make improvements to their home, not just on new housing. The result is that it drives up the price of housing for low-income buyers.

I really don't understand why they demand that you cut down perfectly beautiful mature trees and replace them with new mature trees. It must be so they can mandate the type of tree on your property. Just another heavy handed regulation that makes no consideration for the real world.

 

[DOTR]

I like to watch the show "Flip or Flop" where a California couple makes a fortune buying delapidated houses and turning them into gems. On one show they wanted to redo the front yard of the home by installing sod. Their contractactor told them if they wanted to install sod, the newly updated local building code required them to install a drip irrigation system. Fixing the existing system wasn't allowed. They also had to cut down all the large trees on the property and replace them with mature trees. "Mature" means trees costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The total cost was estimated at $20,000

That's the way your local government promotes affordable housing!

The governent is here to help you. There's no such thing as bad regulations, right snowflakes?

Weekend before last the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on why homes are so expensive in California and why homelessness is such a huge problem. It seems that any squatter whop occupies a house or apartment, whether they sneak in at night during construction or sign a rent agreement and never pay, has a state supported lawyer. The State of California provides free lawyers to any squatter all the way up to the state Supreme Court. Homeowners and landlords are quickly bankrupted out of their property by their own tax dollars being used against them.
According to the author the going rate for a homeowner to rid himself of a squatter is about 20,000.00 which the state extorts and hands over to the squatter in exchange for leaving. The author, a lawyer, was involved in a case wherein the lady squatting was receiving her 3rd 20,000 payment of the year and had bankrupted a Mexican man who bought a small bungalow to provide an income for his daughter to attend college. He had to give up the bungalow.
The socialists not only destroyed another dream but ensured that the daughter will have to take out loans all the while funding their squatting voter.

 

[DOTR]

The article...

The Hostile Occupation of Carlos Lopez’s House

 

[Rustic]

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

Shitholes are expensive to fix up...

 

[DOTR]

Socialists stealing houses.

With Advocates’ Help, Squatters Call Foreclosures Home

 

[Rustic]

Socialists stealing houses.

With Advocates’ Help, Squatters Call Foreclosures Home

Socialism cannot support itself... ever, it has to take to survive…

 

[petro]

Watching that show I am amazed at the real estate prices in some areas.
These people believe they are getting a deal buying a 50+ year old houses under 1500sq ft for 500k to a million.
That would buy you a 5000sq ft mansion where I live. With some acreage to boot.

Glad I live where my mortgage doesn't suffocate me.

 

[boedicca]

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

The drip irrigation requirement is intended to deal with California's water shortage. Unfortunately, they are enforcing it against anyone who wants to make improvements to their home, not just on new housing. The result is that it drives up the price of housing for low-income buyers.

I really don't understand why they demand that you cut down perfectly beautiful mature trees and replace them with new mature trees. It must be so they can mandate the type of tree on your property. Just another heavy handed regulation that makes no consideration for the real world.

We wouldn't have water crises if Jerry Moonbeam hadn't cancelled the California Water Project (put in place by his father when he was governor) in the 1970s. We have plenty of rain in wet seasons that could be stored for our cyclical dry periods. Instead, it flushes into the ocean because Jerry has Daddy Issues.

 

[OnePercenter]

I love it when a new thread starts with factual information coming from reality TV.

How do you install drip irrigation on a lawn, string across the top? Wouldn't that lead to a tripping hazard?

 

[Thinker101]

I love it when a new thread starts with factual information coming from reality TV.

How do you install drip irrigation on a lawn, string across the top? Wouldn't that lead to a tripping hazard?

Almost as much as we love liberals that make stupid ass statements without a "smidgen" of research.
drip irrigation for lawn - Bing video

 

[bripat9643]

I like to watch the show "Flip or Flop" where a California couple makes a fortune buying delapidated houses and turning them into gems. On one show they wanted to redo the front yard of the home by installing sod. Their contractactor told them if they wanted to install sod, the newly updated local building code required them to install a drip irrigation system. Fixing the existing system wasn't allowed. They also had to cut down all the large trees on the property and replace them with mature trees. "Mature" means trees costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The total cost was estimated at $20,000

That's the way your local government promotes affordable housing!

The governent is here to help you. There's no such thing as bad regulations, right snowflakes?

Weekend before last the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on why homes are so expensive in California and why homelessness is such a huge problem. It seems that any squatter whop occupies a house or apartment, whether they sneak in at night during construction or sign a rent agreement and never pay, has a state supported lawyer. The State of California provides free lawyers to any squatter all the way up to the state Supreme Court. Homeowners and landlords are quickly bankrupted out of their property by their own tax dollars being used against them.
According to the author the going rate for a homeowner to rid himself of a squatter is about 20,000.00 which the state extorts and hands over to the squatter in exchange for leaving. The author, a lawyer, was involved in a case wherein the lady squatting was receiving her 3rd 20,000 payment of the year and had bankrupted a Mexican man who bought a small bungalow to provide an income for his daughter to attend college. He had to give up the bungalow.
The socialists not only destroyed another dream but ensured that the daughter will have to take out loans all the while funding their squatting voter.

The snowflakes like to blame it all on corporate greed, but we all know that government is responsible for the high cost of housing in California. Government is always the cause whenever you find such economic anomalies. The media will never report these stories, however.

 

[bripat9643]

Watching that show I am amazed at the real estate prices in some areas.
These people believe they are getting a deal buying a 50+ year old houses under 1500sq ft for 500k to a million.
That would buy you a 5000sq ft mansion where I live. With some acreage to boot.

Glad I live where my mortgage doesn't suffocate me.

The house in question sold for almost $500,000, and it was only 1600 sq ft.

 

[DarkFury]

When the hell did LARGE tress NOT mean MATURE trees?

 

[OnePercenter]

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

There is simply too much regulation.

The housing shortage is being exacerbated by new local regulations that are meant to protect home buyers from another home price collapse. However, what the new regulations have done is make housing more expensive, and out of the reach of many first-time buyers.

We don't have a housing shortage, we have a wage shortage.

 

[OnePercenter]

Watching that show I am amazed at the real estate prices in some areas.
These people believe they are getting a deal buying a 50+ year old houses under 1500sq ft for 500k to a million.
That would buy you a 5000sq ft mansion where I live. With some acreage to boot.

Glad I live where my mortgage doesn't suffocate me.

The house in question sold for almost $500,000, and it was only 1600 sq ft.

It's the location. If you want to talk about high cost of housing why don't you look in your own country. Canada is ridiculous price, especially in a land where you freeze your ass off 10 months out of the year.

 

[bripat9643]

When the hell did LARGE tress NOT mean MATURE trees?

They weren't the ones the local government wanted.